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The Big O episode 14 "Roger the Wanderer". At the end of Roger's hallucination he rediscovers his sense of purpose and finds himself back in Big O. After he knocks down all three of the foreign megadeuses, rays of sunlight shine through the clouds above as he prepares his final attack, which disables his opponents and saves Paradigm City. Watch the sequence here.

Bleach episode 309: After the defeat of Sosuke Aizen and the end of his threat to the Soul Society and the World of the Living, rays of sunlight shine through the clouds over Karakura Town.

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[[folder:Artwork]]

Engraver and painter Gustave Doré used it in several book illustrations, including:

Happens in The Return of the King when Gandalf the White arrives at Minas Tirith and incidentally rescues Faramir from a dark Nazgul attack. It's especially symbolic because the clouds were literally sent from Mordor to aid the forces of darkness.

Lieutenant Commander Fuchida notices the morning sun breaking through the last of the storm clouds, and remarks to his comrades that its rays remind him of the Japanese victory flag that was raised when they launched from the carriers in Tora! Tora! Tora!. This is regarded by all the Japanese pilots as a good omen: in effect, the blessing of heaven upon their mission to ravage Pearl Harbor.

Flipped exactly on its head by the ending of The World's End (part 3 of Edgar Wright's "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy"): rays from above represent the aliens who have been preparing humanity for entry into the galactic civilisation. Rejected by the protagonists, who feel that the aliens have been interfering far too much; leading to the film's Downer Ending.

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[[folder:Literature]]

Towards the end of Eben Alexander's story about visiting an afterlife, Proof Of Heaven, he says that there was heavy rain for six days (starting when he entered the intensive care unit) and then on the day that he woke up he saw "To the east, the sun was shooting its rays through a chink in the cloud cover, lighting up the lovely ancient mountains to the west and the layer of cloud above as well, giving the gray clouds a golden tinge." He also claims that there was a perfect rainbow to go with it.

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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

At the climax of Doctor Who episode "The Vampires of Venice", the clouds are roiling and storming and getting darker every minute as the end of humanity draws near. When the Doctor shuts off the storm controller to save the world once again, the clouds dissipate and sunbeams burst through as people celebrate.

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[[folder:Music]]

Rush's song "Jacob's Ladder" from Permanent Waves has this phenomenon as its subject.

Bruised and sullen storm-clouds Have the light of day obscured; [...] All at once, the clouds are parted, Light streams down in bright unbroken beams. Follow men's eyes as they look to the skies, The shifting shafts of shining weave the fabric of men's dreams.

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At the end of Elisabeth as performed by Pia Douwes and Uwe Kröger, these rays shine down on Elisabeth and Death when he comes for her after her assassination. This shows how, in death, she has the freedom she had always longed for; she has hope; she can go up to the sky.

Tanz Der Vampire has the song "Stärker als wir sind", or "Braver Than We Are", which is a prayer. At its climax with virtually all named characters singing the prayer together, rays shine out from behind the stage, glorifying the moment.

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[[folder:Video Games]]

When you clear the Den of Evil in Diablo II, the place gets illuminated with rays of light apparently breaking through the stone roof of the place as a heavenly-sounding choir can be heard above the music. If you're playing a Paladin, the quote he gives at this point is quite fitting: "My duty here is done."

This visual novel does this at the end of Ep 7 after Will solving all of Beatrice's games and riddles, letting Beatrice, in the form of Claire, die in peace. Lion also learns how lucky s/he should be in not having become Yasu. The sunlight is even described as looking as a staircase to heaven.

Subverted in the Tea-party when Bernkastel revealed her true goal, brings Claire back from the dead to torture her and shows Lion that no matter the fragment s/he will always die in the massacre. To top it all of she also reveals to Ange that her parents were potentially the ones behind the massacre (which is strongly hinted to be true) and that her mother never cared about her.

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[[folder:Western Animation]]

The Soviet war cartoon "Fascist Jackboot Shall Not Tread on Our Motherland" ends with three planes flying into a beam of light shining through parting clouds, accompanied by a song talking about glory to be won in the battles to come. It helps show how the planes are for a just cause and it hopes to inspire you to join.

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